Fri Apr 3 17:34:38 CDT 2009

FahMon 2.3.99 Released

FahMon 2.3.99 is now available for download. Please see the
download page for details on how to get it.

For a comprehensive list of changes please view the changelog
which is linked to from the homepage.

A bit of what's new in this release:

Removed WU info panel from default view.

Lots of performance changes.

You can now monitor clients via FTP and HTTP.

You can upload web output to an FTP server automatically.

What happened to 2.4.0?
As a result of the performance and memory fixes, a previously
infrequent crash-bug has increased in prevalence and will take more
time to fix. Since this is still unlikely to occur often I'm
releasing the current code as it stands. 2.4.0 will be released as
soon as this crash-bug is fixed.

As always if you find any bugs in FahMon please report them
using trac

Mon Jun 16 11:48:49 CDT 2008

Upcoming developments and contributions

I'm writing this news post mainly to let members of the
community know what's going on with FahMon development-wise, since
there have been no new announcements since April.

Developments

For those of you who are not aware, FahMon is coded entirely in
my spare time, which recently I have had virtually none of (writing
theses was the main culprit). However, I'm about to start a major
drive to get various bits of core code in FahMon up to scratch and
more stable.
There are already a number of GUI enhancements in svn including
re-organised menus (for those who were confused about the lack of a
"client" menu), configurable columns in the main view and the
ability to hide the "WU Information" panel. There may be a few more
tweaks to the GUI being made of the next few days to try and make
the whole thing a little slicker than in the current release.
After finishing the GUI updates I'll be taking a look at the
innards of the monitoring code, and possibly re-writing major
portions of it to increase stability, and compatibility (mainly
with SMP clients inside Virtual Machines).

I also hope to be able to put together some build-bots to
automatically compile the latest svn code to ease the testing
process.

Contributing

There are a number of ways that you can help contribute to the
development of FahMon, and only 1 of them requires you to have any
programming knowledge:

Bug reporting. This is very important to help improve
FahMon, because unless I know a bug exists, I can't fix it.

Ideas for features. You guys might come up with something I
had'nt thought of.

Code contributions. I welcome any patches to code, from typos
to new functions.

Monetary donations. There's a paypal link on the homepage.
There's no obligation, but if you want to donate, the facility is
there.